I’ve written about Elixir configuration
in an earlier post,
describing the differences in the configuration styles. If you don’t know how Elixir
configuration works, I suggest reading it also. In this post, I will demonstrate a system
for configuring an Elixir project using the config/runtime.exs system introduced in
Elixir 1.11. This system is how I configure my projects, so feel free take it as inspiration, but
it’s not a law that you have to follow.
Last week I got a very curious email in my inbox. It supposedly came from Microsoft and was a report
about Code::Stats’s compatibility on Edge and what modern browsers it
suggests as a replacement for Internet Explorer. I will quote the key parts:
After setting up AhlCode
and figuring out the taxing and accounting, I’m able to start selling Code::Stats stickers again.
Read on to find out the specs!
On the 11th of May I set up a
sole proprietorship with the name AhlCode.
It is meant to legitimise and properly handle any income coming from my side businesses. The main
aim at this point is to get some money back to compensate the server costs of things I host. But I
wouldn’t complain if it resulted in some little profit also.
Configuring Elixir applications is a common problem point for new developers and I’ve seen many
questions about it in the community chats. So I thought to write down my knowledge in case it helps
anyone.
I’ve long had certain issues with modern
web development, and I even wrote a
little tool of my own to help
me manage such an environment. So I look for ways to minimise the complexity of my setups while still
maintaining some modern conveniences. Now I’ve started to use a setup that relies on TypeScript and
modern browsers’ builtin features. This is a very minimal setup consisting just of TypeScript, plain
CSS, and maybe a tiny build script.
After moving Code::Stats to its own server, the old Online.net box this
blog was running on was going to waste, and more importantly, wasting my money. So I got a new
tiny box from Hetzner and finally got over to dumping the blog on it. But of course I had to use
the opportunity to also refactor it a bit…
Unicode contains a lot of great and useful things. And as things tend to go, people find creative uses for
them. It’s currently trendy to use some of Unicode’s special characters for “font effects”,
𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕖𝕩𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖
(assuming you have good font support, you should see cool double struck letters reading “like this
example”). There are easy converters available for finding out the best
styles.
